Marion County

The Indiana Tax Court ruled that a government agency incorrectly calculated a Marion County school district’s capital
project fund levy property tax rate for 2011, and it has ordered the Department of Local Government Finance to recalculate
the tax rates going back to 2007.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels shouldn’t be excused from appearing for a deposition in a lawsuit challenging the cancelled
multi-million dollar contract with IBM to modernize the state’s welfare system, according to Marion Superior Judge David
Dreyer.

The estates of the seven people killed by the stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair in August will receive at least $300,000
each if the offers extended by the state are accepted, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced Tuesday.

Judge Marilyn Moores spent nearly a year teaching Afghans how to put an agricultural infrastructure in place, helping create
a public defense system for that country and strengthening the role women lawyers have in shaping that society for the future.

The Indiana Commission on Judicial Qualifications has admonished a Marion Superior judge for mailing a questionable re-election
fundraising flyer that it says put the judiciary in a negative light and implied that justice is for sale.

A victim molested by the former swim coach at an Indianapolis high school and club team is suing the former coach, the school
corporation and two swimming organizations, arguing several people knew of the coach’s past inappropriate contact with
minors and did nothing about it.

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller issued a legal opinion Thursday in response to a request by two Indiana legislators
on whether school systems can outsource bus services to another entity that charges parents.

A woman in Marion County has filed a lawsuit against a community school corporation because she claims the fee imposed for
her children to ride the bus to school interferes with their constitutional right to an education.

Indiana Tax Judge Martha Wentworth denied the Marion County assessor’s motion to dismiss two petitioners' original
tax appeal, finding the parties properly served a copy of the petition with the attorney general’s office.

The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office has reached a plea agreement in a common construction wage violation involving
an Indianapolis contractor, believed to be the first prosecution of this kind in Indiana.

The Indiana Court of Appeals disagrees with the state Department of Child Services that fact-finding and dispositional hearings
in a child in need of services case are interchangeable. The appellate panel has ruled a Marion County father’s due
process rights were denied because he didn’t receive the opportunity for a fact-finding hearing.

The Center Township Board on Sept. 21 approved a plan to move the township’s small claims court from the downtown Indianapolis
City-County Building to the Julia M. Carson Government Center despite a judge’s objection.